Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas coming to the Xbox 6/7/05
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Freak'n Big Panda
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does anybody here really belive GTA SA is a good game? I played it for a little bit.. the graphics and sound are like a trip back to '97. Its really quite insane. Like there sooo soooo bad I don't even know where to start. All the guns sound the same (which is a shitty sound BTW) The texures are horrid, like were taking quake 1 in some places... really really bad. Pop up is horrible and to top it all off you get it at around 20-30fps 
Game play is decent but it hardly makes up for all the shortcomings. Plus Its not nearly a huge as some ppl aremaking it out to be. In terms of land mass maybe, but its sooo undeatiled it doesn't really matter. Morrowind was much much more impressive in this area IMO. Any MMORPG can easily match GTA SA in terms of shear size. Anyway sorry I neded to vent, I seriously do not understand why thisgame got crazy good reviews...
Game play is decent but it hardly makes up for all the shortcomings. Plus Its not nearly a huge as some ppl aremaking it out to be. In terms of land mass maybe, but its sooo undeatiled it doesn't really matter. Morrowind was much much more impressive in this area IMO. Any MMORPG can easily match GTA SA in terms of shear size. Anyway sorry I neded to vent, I seriously do not understand why thisgame got crazy good reviews...
Freak'n Big Panda said:does anybody here really belive GTA SA is a good game? I played it for a little bit.. the graphics and sound are like a trip back to '97. Its really quite insane. Like there sooo soooo bad I don't even know where to start. All the guns sound the same (which is a shitty sound BTW) The texures are horrid, like were taking quake 1 in some places... really really bad. Pop up is horrible and to top it all off you get it at around 20-30fps
Content > Graphics.
Tagrineth said:
you guys should meet in a dark ally somewhere, fight it out sony chiba style, and i'll give $5 to the winner. those are fightin' words you guys just spoke, and my money is on the line, so get scap'n!
think about it... five whole dollars. and they are US dollars, too, so make arangement's quick, US money is worth less every day.
Freak'n Big Panda said:
Pretty much one of the best game i have played.
But i have often wondered how much of a technical achievement the GTA series really is. For one GTA:SA is really big yet there is no loading only streaming from the DVD, and since you cant fit the entire world into memory i guess you are stuck with a certain amount of detail level based on the number of data you can get streamed.
It's an acquired taste if you've been gaming for a while. Coolest thing ever if you've never gamed before, I guess.
I'll definitely check this one out on the PC come June.
My interest in the series kind of waned from title to title (loved GTA, loved GTA2 a little less, loved GTA3 a little less than that, only completed about 5 missions in Vice City) but that won't stop me from trying GTA:SA.
I'll definitely check this one out on the PC come June.
My interest in the series kind of waned from title to title (loved GTA, loved GTA2 a little less, loved GTA3 a little less than that, only completed about 5 missions in Vice City) but that won't stop me from trying GTA:SA.
Freak'n Big Panda
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rofl... yea we should. Maybe I'm not giving GTA a chance, but it seem just screams "lets not do any work cause we know its going to sell millions anyway"
Jak 2 looked way way better then GTA and also had no load times what soever. I i'm pretty sure the horrible graphics and sound just come down to developer lazyness.
Johnny Awesome
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While I hate GTA myself, it's pretty obvious that it's a triumph of design over graphics. IMO it's the worst shooter, worst driving game, worst adventure game etc... all rolled into one game and integrated nicely.
Freak'n Big Panda
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yea easily. Have u played jak 2? GTA SA is just porly programed.
-tkf- said:
It's amazing how the Jak series puts most games out there to shame on a technical level. IMO apart from a bit of tearing, it runs at double the framerate, progressiv-scan included and has a better draw-distance, more going on and I would say more geometry as well. In that aspect, even Jak & Daxter in 2002 is equally impressive (take out a bit of geometry, no p-scan but constant framerate with no tearing). Jak 3, although probably the same graphics-engine as Jak 2 is even more impressive thanks to the added, a bit more polished gameplay mechanics.
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